Mondo Grosso @ ageHa
Click to viewOsawa Shin'ichi performed at Japan's largest club, ageHa, Friday night. I went.
Most of the evening I danced while thinking of Murakami Haruki's Kafka on the Shore. I read the Japanese version while simultaneously growing addicted to much of Osawa's latest remix album, UDON. As certain beats were played in the live performance, I recalled scenes and characters from the book. The woods of Shikoku play a significant role in the novel (which I highly recommend), and much of the music somehow has become linked to them.
Justin, Will, and Will's friend also came. Sho decided to stay home, though he later came to regret it, upon hearing how much fun I had.
I'm still high off it.
Being a straight evening, and dancing primarily alone, I felt slightly odd. How does one behave? Two boys came up and started to hold me sometime in the five hours I was dancing, but, I fled elsewhere shortly thereafter. They returned and we danced some more -- but it was not the night for sleaziness.
Osawa is playing in Osaka this Saturday. I want to go. But, I won't. July fourteenth he returns to Tokyo. I'm there. This time, Sho has promised to accompany.
Video of the event Friday has been posted on Osawa's MySpace page here. I'm somewhere in the front. Heh.